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3 Dec 2021, 20:53 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / There’s a Romanian engineer in Tesla’s history. Cristina Balan was once called a CAD Fairy for solving really hard engineering issues. She even got her initials on the first Model S battery packs for that. What could be a beautiful stor...
3 Dec 2021, 17:03 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Reuters broke the news about a new electric sedan that will be presented in April 2022 and sold initially only in China. It will be a partnership between Toyota and BYD, but the really fascinating part is not that it will be a sort of electric Coro...
3 Dec 2021, 12:59 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On November 21, Tesla warned NHTSA that 826 Model Y units would have to go through an inspection due to issues with suspension knuckles. Quality control problems with Tesla’s supplier, Ningbo Tuopu, implied that they could deform or break. If...
3 Dec 2021, 12:04 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The union-based EV tax credit the Joe Biden administration wants to approve is still under discussion in Congress, but reactions against it keep building up. The latest one came from the Mexican government. The Mexican Economy Minister Tatiana Clou...
2 Dec 2021, 23:32 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / By the beginning of November, Geely told us it had a competitor to the Tesla Semi. Produced by its truck division called Farizon Auto, the Homtruck does not stick to battery packs: it can have fuel cells, a range extender, or even swappable batteri...
2 Dec 2021, 20:05 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The Polestar 3 will be produced in the U.S. in 2022. Nothing was more natural for the company than to present it on American shores in prototype guise, as it just did in New York to investors and journalists. Although a camo paint tried to hide its...
2 Dec 2021, 18:52 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / On May 17, 2021, Tesla was ordered to pay 136,000 kroner ($14,970 at the current exchange rate) to 30 Norwegian customers affected by the software updates 2019.16.1 or 2019.16.2. These OTA (over-the-air) updates capped the voltage of Model S and Mo...
2 Dec 2021, 16:52 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / QuantumScape has a blog where it discusses key elements of its solid-state platform. In a recent post there, the company explained C-rates and made it clear which was the characteristic it praised the most about the technology it is developing: fas...
30 Nov 2021, 21:39 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / One of the issues with being a legacy automaker is that you can’t simply tell your dealership network goodbye to adopt direct sales as Tesla did. They will sue you for trying to sell at lower costs than they do. Volkswagen is trying to solve ...
30 Nov 2021, 19:55 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When Hakan Samuelsson told Automotive News that the electric successor to the XC90 would have a name starting with a vowel, Alex Misoyannis did not waste time. Our colleague from the Australian website Drive searched international trademark databas...
30 Nov 2021, 19:05 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / If regular lithium-ion cells were people, they should be feeling depressed right now. Most EV makers use them not because they want but because they have to while solid-state batteries are not ready. Mercedes-Benz has just joined its Japanese compe...
30 Nov 2021, 17:13 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / At 5:39 AM on November 30, Nanjing firefighters received the warning that a Volvo XC90 Recharge had caught fire in an underground garage. It took them only 15 minutes to reach the location and extinguish the blaze. Volvo technicians also rushed to ...
30 Nov 2021, 15:12 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Keith Leech coined the expression Whompy Wheels after realizing multiple Tesla vehicles in junkyards presented suspension issues that were not compatible with the crashes that put them there. Other situations made it clear that the suspension is an...
30 Nov 2021, 00:22 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The semiconductor world crisis that emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic showed multiple governments that local production is a must. As much as Adam Smith was right about some countries being better than others in producing some goods, there are thi...
29 Nov 2021, 23:12 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The nature of YouTube channels is always to have something new and exciting to present. When a project ends, another one has to replace it as quickly as possible. Rich Benoit and his team finished ICE-T (Internal Combustion-Engined Tesla) when it w...
29 Nov 2021, 19:37 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Toyota is frequently referred to as a company that wants to keep combustion engines alive. It would be against electrification despite selling the first hybrid in 1997. As people say, for every situation, there’s an easy explanation that is e...
29 Nov 2021, 13:42 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Skoda is famous for its station wagons. Despite how well it sells them, the Czech brand announced it would no longer make a Fabia Combi due to tougher Euro 7 emission rules. Before that, fans were expected to see it by 2023. The rendering artist Th...
29 Nov 2021, 09:46 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / It took Nissan quite a while to honor its role as an electrification pioneer. Despite being the first brand to present a modern mass-market electric car – the LEAF – the company failed to deliver new ones to expand the EV lineup. That w...
28 Nov 2021, 23:18 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / There’s nothing worse for a good idea than using it for virtue signaling. Check electric vehicles: they make sense for multiple reasons. They would still do if governments were not worried about climate change. Driving one will not save the w...
28 Nov 2021, 22:13 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / When buying ICE cars, most people ask about power, fuel consumption, roominess, build quality, price, servicing, and a few other personally essential aspects. For those who think it works the same way for EVs, I must tell you that this will not suf...